2026학년도 수능 영어 빈칸 변형 (30-42번)

Situational ethics is an ____ theory that takes into account the context of a situation or an act when judging whether it is ethical.

Supporters ____ this theory willingly permit casting aside absolute moral standards.

In the absence of a ____ standard or law, what matters is the outcome or consequences; so, the end justifies the means.

Possibly the following contrasting realities can help illustrate the application of ____ ethics.

In a pickup game of basketball played among friends, everyone is expected to call his or her own fouls or ____ knocking the ball out-of-bounds.

Caring about one’s friends and maybe getting to keep playing with the group ____ to these actions.

But, once an organized game is played with officials, most ____ will not admit to the same fouls or violations as the end goal of winning is more important than expressing concern for competitors.

Situational ____ has been extended by many athletes and coaches to mean trying to get away with as many actions on the field or court as possible to gain competitive advantages.

The early grain trade firms were active in both surplus-producing and food deficit regions, and these firms made it their business to ____ the state of supply and demand in both.

Because this information was the key to their profitability, these ____ worked in relative secrecy, frequently built on family ties, trust, and loyalty.

In addition, these firms were able to benefit from ____ rise of commodity exchanges and commodities futures markets that emerged in the mid-1800s.

Agricultural markets are naturally unstable, due ____ changes in harvest size that result from variable weather patterns and other factors.

Locking-in prices ____ buying and selling grain for future delivery helped these firms to minimize such risks.

It made sense for the grain trading companies to ____ their risks within a single firm that was operating in more than one country, rather than operating as independent national companies trading with each other.

Their access to information in multiple markets enabled them to easily cover the risks ____ with agricultural commodity trade.

The basic guidelines for good style are not mysterious; in fact, you use them every day ____ conversation.

____ conversation and in writing, we all rely heavily on cooperation to make sense of exchanges, and a polished practical style makes cooperation easier.

____ develop such a style by acknowledging that readers expect the same things that listeners expect in conversation: clarity, relevance, and proportion.

If you listen to someone ____ is not clear, who cannot stay on the topic, or who offers too much or too little information, you will quickly lose interest in the conversation.

Writers, too, need to be clear, stay on the ____ and give information appropriately.

In fact, this attention to audience and appropriateness may be even more important in writing than in conversation ____ writing does not permit the nonverbal communication and immediate feedback that are part of conversation.

As writers, we have to anticipate the absent reader’s ____ ; in effect, we have to imagine both halves of a virtual conversation.

Giving clients sufficient opportunity to react to your designs while ____ progress is a key to professional success.

Similarly, involving prospective building ____ as well as clients is even more valuable in the long run.

Say your client is a large corporation, ____ as a health care provider.

While the hospital administration may serve as your client, no doubt the perspectives of administration personnel will differ significantly from those of doctors, interns, residents, nurses, and other medical ____ who use the building regularly.

In addition, the experiences of patients and visitors who use the building irregularly, often as a result of life-threatening emergencies, ____ altogether different as well.

Understanding how each type of user experiences ____ current medical environment as well as how each reacts to your prospective designs inevitably produces a better building.

People are likely to be more satisfied with a new building or addition if they have been consulted in the ____ process.

For a large ____ this can translate into increased productivity on the job, reduced absenteeism, less turnover, and lower costs.

Kant was a strong defender of the rule of ____ as the ultimate guarantee, not only of security and peace, but also of freedom.

He ____ that human societies were moving towards more rational forms regulated by effective and binding legal frameworks because only such frameworks enabled people to live in harmony, to prosper and to co-operate.

However, his belief in inevitable progress was not based ____ an optimistic or high-minded view of human nature.

On the contrary, it comes close to Hobbes’s outlook: man’s violent ____ conflict-prone nature makes it necessary to establish and maintain an effective legal framework in order to secure peace.

We cannot count on ____ benevolence or goodwill, but even ‘a nation of devils’ can live in harmony in a legal system that binds every citizen equally.

Ideally, the law is the embodiment ____ those political principles that all rational beings would freely choose.

If such laws forbid ____ to do something that they would not rationally choose to do anyway, then the law cannot be understood as a restraint on their freedom.

There are few of us who don’t at least want to make time for self-care activities ____ as exercise, hobbies, or relaxation.

We start each day with the best of intentions but then get stuck by the flood of email ____ or pulled into an unexpected meeting.

As we struggle ____ reprioritize so we can get everything done before our deadlines, often our self-care activities are the first thing to be given up.

No matter how much we plan, we all occasionally have ____ when that happens.

In the short term, the impact of missing that grant deadline ____ be greater than the impact of missing a woodworking class.

But it’s important to recognize the cumulative impact of not prioritizing ____ and to make sure that in the long term, this is the exception rather than the norm.

We usually think of a clock as a physical thing, like an ____ clock or a wristwatch.

But a clock is really a process embodied in a machine, and the nature ____ that process is repetitive.

A clock can be almost any process that repeats itself over and over again for ____ indefinite period.

Water clocks ____ at a steady pace; quartz crystals vibrate regularly.

Indeed, it ____ almost impossible to think of a clock that does not depend on a repetitive cycle of events.

The only example that comes to mind readily is a ____ marked in hours.

But here too there is iteration ― the repeated burning of molecules of wax ― so this too is an iterative process, although at first ____

The use of radiocarbon dating is another, much longer scale clock that also appears ____ be like this.

It seems to yield a smooth time scale but in fact does not: the decay of ____ of carbon-14 is repetitive, although on a large scale it gives the appearance of being continuous.

Philosophy allows ____ to ask much broader questions than many other scientific disciplines.

It is capable of looking ____ the bigger picture and providing important insights into the relationships between different areas of knowledge.

Philosophy ____ particularly important for the interdisciplinary efforts of cognitive science, where it helps to bridge gaps between different disciplines and pioneer new ways for research.

Unlike scientific methods, philosophizing is a non-empirical approach that ____ to validate concepts through logical thinking and argumentation.

Philosophers tend to ask questions rather than provide definitive answers, and their contributions often consist of challenging ____ assumptions and proposing new research approaches.

However, for a more comprehensive understanding of the nature of consciousness, close collaboration between philosophy ____ neuroscience is required.

This means that while philosophy can provide valuable insights into theoretical concepts and ____ ethical questions, it needs to be supplemented by empirical findings and experiments to reach a more comprehensive understanding.

While stories clearly dominate statistics from both memorability and persuasiveness perspectives, it’s rarely a battle between facts and anecdotes ― or even facts and ____ facts.

The real clash is actually between stories: ____ predominant incumbent and a new challenger.

As storytelling creatures, we routinely form ____ to help us understand the world around us.

When we experience different events or encounter ____ facts, our minds seek to make sense of them by forming stories around them.

For example, if you have had some bad experiences with ____ from a particular university, you may create a negative narrative in your mind about people who went to that school.

Suddenly, you judge everyone from the university by what you’ve experienced on just a few ____ occasions.

Sometimes these internal narratives we ____ not only shape our beliefs and opinions but also become deeply rooted in our identity.

For example, the narratives you have formed ____ gun control or climate change are most likely related with your political ideology ― who you are as an individual.

A video ____ has its own model of reality, internal to itself and separate from the player’s external reality, the player’s bodily space and the avatar’s bodily space.

The avatar’s bodily space, the potential actions of the avatar in the game world, is the only ____ in which the reality of the external reality of the game world can be perceived.

As in the real ____ perception requires action.

The difference is that the action in the game world can only be ____ through the virtual bodily space of the avatar.

Players extend their perceptual field into the game, encompassing ____ available actions of the avatar.

The feedback loop of perception and action that enables you to navigate the world around you is now one step removed: instead of perceiving primarily through interaction of your own body with the external world, you’re perceiving the game world through ____ of the avatar.

The entire perceptual system has been extended into the game ____

In modern societies, the performing arts form a distinct category of public entertainment in opposition to the mass distribution through the media of expertly staged performances which have been recorded ____ edited.

By contrast, theater, ballet, circus, concert, rodeo, storytelling, etc., unfold their signs in real space ____ time, and engage audiences who respond cognitively and emotionally on the spot.

Performers and ____ are involved in shared enjoyment.

But sometimes ____ occurs within the boundaries of such ritualistic events.

In industrialized ____ computerized cultures, the performing arts become economically unstable because the institutions which sustain them increasingly depend on public and corporate funding.

However, they retain their power of fascination for large, if not massive audiences, who prize ____ experiential, risk-loaded and one-time event quality they afford.

In traditional and local ____ performances still survive and provide their audiences with a unique fulfillment in smaller scale, economically sustainable institutional settings.

In a situation of financial challenges due to reliance on external ____ the performing arts, which provide unique and live experiences, secure audiences who value those experiences.

There is an obvious problem with the history of dress in all of its displays and that is, although textiles survive from early periods and cultures of recorded ____ actual garments do not provide an uninterrupted flow of evidence across the same long time-span.

Therefore, to give ____ study of dress equal significance to other areas such as architecture, painting, prints, drawings and sculpture, it was inevitable that these other areas would provide much of the source material.

The history of surviving dress really ____ starts in the 17th century, and like all artefacts described as fine or decorative art, is a highly visual subject.

However, unlike most of the categories of collection ____ study that make up those areas, it is fluid rather than static.

Garments should be seen in movement on a ____ body, not frozen on a display figure.

This is one of the many difficulties when curating collections of costume and also why some modern writers find costume collections ____ and intellectually lifeless.

Fortunately, in the period after 1660, when more items of dress survive to enrich our ____ of the history of the subject, there are also many painted, printed, photographed and filmed sources of evidence of people in clothing, caught in movement.

Often a variety of different types of illustrative examples will provide evidence about how a garment was worn within ____ period in which it was made.

Without the information contained in art in all of its forms, from drawing to sculpture, it is likely that displays of historic ____ would be awkward imitations of the intentions of their original makers and owners.